Peter Bach Email & Phone Number

Shanghai, Cn

Burnaby, B.C., Ca

Leading the development of the Ballard's most advanced automotive fuel cell stack under contract with one of the worlds leading automotive companies.

Burnaby, B.C., Ca

•Led diverse group of senior engineers and technicians with backgrounds in electrical, controls, mechanical and testing.•Provided performance feedback to team members, set goals, and mentored junior staff. •Developed high level and detailed requirements with customers, business teams, manufacturing, R&D, and service teams.•Led cost reduction actives resulting in a 20 % reduction of existing products and 50% cost reduction for future products.•Worked with outside contractors and supplier engineering teams to develop and improve fuel cell system components (air compressor, motors controllers, valves, pumps, inverters, etc).•Produced detailed system models involving heat transfer, fluid dynamics, energy consumption/ and production. •Managed major restructuring of product including the implementation of new electrically driven air compressor sub-systems, humidification sub-systems, hydrogen recirculation and pressure control sub-systems, new fuel cell stacks, and new controls firmware and software.

Burnaby, B.C., Ca

•Provided front-line technical support spanning all of Ballard's market segments. •Key technical lead for the launch of the DG product line.•Developed innovative technical and business solutions for the distributed power markets. •Worked within an aggressive and fast paced team to secure a pipeline of over 25 qualified sales leads for multi-megawatt fuel cell projects around the world.•Secured $7 Million dollars government funding for key product development •Led techincal architecture and interface negotiations with customers and sales teams in Europe, Asia, and North America.•Presented to external and internal audiences on wide range of topics and interests –business, technical, government funding/ relations, and environmental impacts.

Burnaby, B.C., Ca

Led the technical development of four generations of automotive fuel cell stacks with tight deadlines, tight budgets, and stretch goals. Over 6 years of development and four generations of fuel cell stacks the team was able to reduce the size of stack by 300%, triple the stack lifetime, increase performance dramatically, and demonstrated real world freeze start capability to -40C,

Burnaby, B.C., Ca

- Successfully led cross-functional team to develop Ballard's 5th gereration fuel cell stack and system- Developed and maintained models to track costs, reliability, performance, durability.-Oversaw durability and reliability testing-Identified key elements for development and set long-term technology imporvement targets- Performed stack / system tradeoff studies to define targets for next generation products- Reported quarterly technology program updates for customers and senior management

Burnaby, B.C., Ca

�Developed new and innovative fuel cell designs, operating strategies, and failure mode mitigation strategies.�Developed fuel cell quality control and process metrics. Negotiated product requirements and interfaces for major automotive and fuel cell programs.�Successfully led fuel cell design teams for bus and automotive programs. Led reliability and durability improvement efforts. Let fuel cell freeze start efforts.